Pilot

A little rough around the edges but still covering some pretty cool science, it’s our pilot episode of CellOut! Here we summarize and discuss a sample of articles from the January 2022 issue of PLoS biology. Issue Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue?id=10.1371/issue.pbio.v20.i01 Keywords: biology, life science, open access, scientific journals, science, PLOS, SHOW NOTES Cover Art - January 2022 PLoS Biology Cover. Image Credit - Katie Chu Cutting Edge (01:46) Rocha EPC, Bikard D (2022) Microbial defenses against mobile genetic elements and viruses: Who defends whom from what? PLoS Biol 20(1): e3001514. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001514 Crash Course (10:11) Coughlan J (2022) One fish, two fish, red fish, dead fish: Detecting the genomic footprint of ecological incompatibilities. PLoS Biol 20(1): e3001504. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001504 Jargon Jungle (21:58) Journal Club (28:01) Prat Y, Bshary R, Lotem A (2022) Modelling how cleaner fish approach an ephemeral reward task demonstrates a role for ecologically tuned chunking in the evolution of advanced cognition. PLoS Biol 20(1): e3001519. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001519 Cell Culture (49:12) Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky Slice of Life Science (53:19) Koonin EV, Makarova KS (2022) Evolutionary plasticity and functional versatility of CRISPR systems. PLoS Biol 20(1): e3001481. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001481 Jasso GJ, Jaiswal A, Varma M, Laszewski T, Grauel A, Omar A, et al. (2022) Colon stroma mediates an inflammation-driven fibroblastic response controlling matrix remodeling and healing. PLoS Biol 20(1): e3001532. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001532 Stubenrauch CJ, Bamert RS, Wang J, Lithgow T (2022) A noncanonical chaperone interacts with drug efflux pumps during their assembly into bacterial outer membranes. PLoS Biol 20(1): e3001523. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001523 Furness AI, Venditti C, Capellini I (2022) Terrestrial reproduction and parental care drive rapid evolution in the trade-off between offspring size and number across amphibians. PLoS Biol 20(1): e3001495. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001495 Slavov N (2022) Learning from natural variation across the proteomes of single cells. PLoS Biol 20(1): e3001512. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001512